18:24 “‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you 4 have been defiled with all these things. 18:25 Therefore 5 the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, 6 so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants. 18:26 You yourselves must obey 7 my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst, 8 18:27 for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, 9 and the land has become unclean. 18:28 So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it 10 just as it has vomited out the nations 11 that were before you. 18:29 For if anyone does any of these abominations, the persons who do them will be cut off from the midst of their people. 12 18:30 You must obey my charge to not practice any of the abominable statutes 13 that have been done before you, so that you do not 14 defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.’”
1 tn Heb “As the work [or “deed”] of the land of Egypt, which you were dwelling in it, you must not do.”
2 tn Heb “and as the work [or “deed”] of the land of Canaan which I am bringing you to there, you must not do.” The participle “I am bringing” is inceptive; the
3 tn Heb “and you shall not walk.”
4 tn Heb “which I am sending away (Piel participle of שָׁלַח [shalakh, “to send”]) from your faces.” The rendering here takes the participle as anticipatory of the coming conquest events.
5 tn Heb “And.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative or even inferential force here.
6 tn Heb “and I have visited its [punishment for] iniquity on it.” See the note on Lev 17:16 above.
7 tn Heb “And you shall keep, you.” The latter emphatic personal pronoun “you” is left out of a few medieval Hebrew
8 tn Heb “the native and the sojourner”; NIV “The native-born and the aliens”; NAB “whether natives or resident aliens.”
9 tn Heb “for all these abominations the men of the land who were before you have done.”
10 tn Heb “And the land will not vomit you out in your defiling it.”
11 tc The MT reads the singular “nation” and is followed by ASV, NASB, NRSV; the LXX, Syriac, and Targum have the plural “nations” (cf. v. 24).
12 sn Regarding the “cut off” penalty see the note on Lev 7:20.
13 tn Heb “to not do from the statutes of the detestable acts.”
14 tn Heb “and you will not.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.